Donald Trump says he’s having no luck with Canada on a new trade deal. That won’t be a shock to anyone familiar with how talks between Washington and Ottawa have been going.

On Friday though, Trump let loose on Canada and a whole pile of other topics while speaking with reporters.

“We don’t have a deal with Canada,” Trump said.

“August 1 is going to come, and we will have most of our deals finished, if not all. We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada. I think Canada could be one where they’ll just pay tariffs. It’s not really a negotiation.”

That last part, that it’s not really a negotiation, is something I heard Thursday from the Canadian side – before Trump ever spoke.

“We haven’t put anything on the table,” said one source well-briefed on the talks.

The Americans want a deal with us, they’ve said so repeatedly, and time and again, both Canadian and American sources have said it is Canada’s negotiating team getting in the way.

“It should take half a day to get a deal done, we........

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